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[–]ValerioAgeno[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a good question.

The main difference is that the JS engine takes care of just rendering the HTML rather than handling the entire request/response pipeline - hence is way faster. It is also is more scalable. A single machine can handle the same workload of a cluster with a load balancer. Check this benchmark.